Where do I end, and where does someone else begin? Many who struggle with people pleasing often struggle with understanding healthy boundaries. This is a struggle for co-dependents or people-pleasers because they were taught from a young age to take on the needs and cares of everyone around them at the expense of themselves. It’s not just denying oneself, it’s […]
“Be still and know that I am God.” -Psalm 46:10 NIV “Crunch up…4…3…2…1 …and hold…4…3…2…1 …and down slowly…4…3…2…1.” The instructor’s words repeated on my television screen. Laying on my back, I struggled to crunch slowly upward, hold, and slowly descend back down to the floor. This workout was different than the ones that required me to hurry, get in more […]
“I’m not good at this in-between stuff.” The words came out as I scanned our empty kitchen cabinets. All of its contents lay in bins in our living room, across our kitchen table, and continued to trail on the floor into our basement. My husband and I decided that Memorial Day weekend was the time we’d finally start re-painting our […]